Mephistophiles [!] in England, Or, The Confessions of a Prime Minister, Volumen2Harper, 1835 |
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... nature can be studied with so much advantage as a great city , for it contains almost every variety of character into which mankind are capable of being divided . In country villages , and places remote from general intercourse with the ...
... nature can be studied with so much advantage as a great city , for it contains almost every variety of character into which mankind are capable of being divided . In country villages , and places remote from general intercourse with the ...
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... natural advantages , " observed Mr. Au- gustus St. John , with the air and tone of a premeditated speech , let us proceed to investigate the different charac- ters of the inhabitants of cities and villages . In the first place- » " A ...
... natural advantages , " observed Mr. Au- gustus St. John , with the air and tone of a premeditated speech , let us proceed to investigate the different charac- ters of the inhabitants of cities and villages . In the first place- » " A ...
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... nature for his mutton ; and pay a visit to his poultry when they are desirous of enjoying the luxury of poached eggs . " " Bravo ! " exclaimed the admiral , his eyes sparkling with childish delight ; " your lordship's the drollest fish ...
... nature for his mutton ; and pay a visit to his poultry when they are desirous of enjoying the luxury of poached eggs . " " Bravo ! " exclaimed the admiral , his eyes sparkling with childish delight ; " your lordship's the drollest fish ...
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... nature that hundreds of people die every day . " " Dd fools ! " ejaculated the admiral , as he gulped down his coffee . 66 Having sufficiently established the moral superiority of the town , " remarked Mr. Augustus St. John , once more ...
... nature that hundreds of people die every day . " " Dd fools ! " ejaculated the admiral , as he gulped down his coffee . 66 Having sufficiently established the moral superiority of the town , " remarked Mr. Augustus St. John , once more ...
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... nature the origin of those ideas which art and genius enabled them to turn to advantage ; but our wiser contemporaries scorn owing any obligation to anybody ; consequently , their con- ceptions are as unlike anything in heaven or earth ...
... nature the origin of those ideas which art and genius enabled them to turn to advantage ; but our wiser contemporaries scorn owing any obligation to anybody ; consequently , their con- ceptions are as unlike anything in heaven or earth ...
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Página 192 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege Through all the years of this our life, to lead From, joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith...
Página 192 - tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.
Página 66 - Turkey carpets, to have been expressly designed not to resemble anything in the heavens above, in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.
Página 74 - I could see them established more generally, and I hope the time is not far distant when I shall...
Página 124 - ... Deserts of Arabia, being male and female/' Fawkes, the conjuror, was now dead, but Pinchbeck carried on the show, in conjunction with his late partner's son, and issued the following announcement:— " This is to give notice, that Mr. Pinchbeck and Fawkes, who have had the honour to perform before the Royal Family, and most of the Nobility and Gentry in the Kingdom with great applause, during the time of Southwark Fair, will divert the Publick with the following surprising Entertainments, at...
Página 50 - If I might be allowed to make a suggestion, I should say it would do you service at the present moment were you to exhibit the great talents you undoubtedly possess.
Página 133 - The pride of the world and the queen of the sea! Spring adorneth thy limbs with bright emerald studs, Summer bathes thy proud head with her fresh falling floods; Thy rich flowing tresses doth autumn caress, And winter flings o'er thee his frost-spangled dress.
Página 76 - Rutherford's critical judgement and intuitive power have called forth a revolution in science by inducing him to throw himself with his unique energy into the study of a phenomenon, the importance of which would probably escape other investigators on account of the smallness and apparently spurious...
Página 121 - With hunger more than human zest; Though bringing poison to the blood And anguish to the breast. Like vultures upon carrion fare Whene'er their own was gone.
Página 121 - Spread there their unresisted lure, For baits to prove the proud man's curse, And keep the miser poor. In his palsied hand the monarch gave That knelt his throne before; Gorging the food like worms i...